the young ones

We are fast approaching Halloween and the boys are pretty set on what they will be this year- Willy has talked for the last two months about how 'I a frog' so that should be pretty easy; James was dead set on Spiderman, but we have managed to convince him that it would actually be cooler to be a spider (like the one that bit Spiderman) because there are going to be dozens of other Spidermen around. This conveniently allows us to make both costumes and not have to go out and buy stuff (besides candy).
Its full on fall here now- the leaves have been blazing out over the last couple of weeks and it is starting to drop down in temp. It will be interesting to see how much heating oil we burn in the new house this winter- our storm windows are pretty old and its difficult to judge how much insulation is in the walls- though the attic is pretty well insulated. We figure this will be our baseline year and maybe we can afford to do some more serious weatherproofing next year. Katharine has been very busy with her classes and working with sustainability initiatives on campus and writing grants etc. She is waiting to hear about funding and attendance for a possible class to Denmark early next summer. I hope I can update my building blog soon- I've been doing some interesting side projects as well as two big timberframes- a house and a boat barn. The boys had their pictures taken at school recently- the poses they manage to get them in are pretty amazing (and hilarious). We recently put the boys on a see-saw and had to push down on James' side because Willy outweighs him by a little already!




My absolute favorite; it looks like he fell over and is trying to smile as he gets up--